Morrinsville Junior Tournament

A disappointing entry of just 4 teams played at Morrinsville on Sunday Aug 6.

And that included a team of four novices, all from different clubs, assembled just the evening before.

Not surprisingly that team did not fare well in the final reckoning especially as neither pair had played with each other before. We hope they enjoyed the day though, and perhaps learned something.
The teams played a 16-board match against each of the other three teams. Each match was split into two halves so each pair played against both pairs of the opposing team.

The winners were the Te Aroha team of Malcolm Kirkby, Peter Daffurn, Charlotte Jager and John Phillips. They won all their matches convincingly (although they didn’t quite score the maximum 20 VPs in any of them)

Second were the Hamilton team of Bryan Robb, Linley Robb, Jim Ward and Bill West with two wins (one of those WAS by 20 VPs).
Third were Jo Bowman & Jenny Shaw (Morrinsville) with Nicola Slade & Peter Tait-Jamieson (Te Aroha). They won one match with 20 VPs but lost the other two.

And the “encouragement award” goes to Lynne Boyack (Huntly), Mary Allen (Morrinsville), Lynn Ryan (Matamata) and Tineke Yates (Te Aroha).